This could be an important move, since Ukraine does not have satellites of its own currently.

Ukraine has been relying on US and commercial satellites to monitor Russian activity in areas where drones cannot reach, or where they cannot communicate.

Commanded by the Trump administration, the US military recently stopped sharing intelligence data with Ukraine. Commercial data tends to have a higher latency and lower resolution, so I think Ukrainians will highly appreciate French assistance.

It’s great. However, from the french ministère des armées Link I count 3 types of satellites for a grand total around 8 including two dedicated to satcom. (assuming this is up to date, and that all informations are public) It’s not a bad number of a “medium-sized nation” but unless other European nation have the same capacities it’s definitely not enough to provide 24/7 intelligence to Ukraine

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I think the UK have a number of imaging satellites of their own. The question is, would they be realistically able to share the Intel to Ukraine via France without the US discovering, as this could jeopardise theUK’s current diplomatic position as the bridge between EU and US.

It seems plausible to me that UK and France agreed to play a good cop/bad cop face of Europe.

So, Actual Freedom Fries now then?